Manchester City simply aren’t happy unless they are letting their supporters suffer a little, and on an extraordinary evening of highs and lows in Denmark last night, another tragi-comedy in the history of the club was averted narrowly.

Coasting 2-0 from the first leg, City proceeded to shoot themselves in the foot in a way that only they know how, Mark Hughes’s team conceding two goals in the final five minutes of normal time to allow Aalborg to take a tie that had seemed beyond them into extra